Listen to the Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016
This is a Podcast of the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending July 15, 2016. The JAMAICA WEEKLY News Summary Podcast is brought to you by Jamaicans.com. For past Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Podcasts please visit our archives.
Jamaican Chosen for Prestigious Clerkship at International Court of Justice – Legal Firsts for Jamaica
Jamaica’s Chaka Laguerre has been selected to serve a 10-month clerkship at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the Netherlands. She is the first judicial law clerk from Jamaica and one of the firsts from the Caribbean to serve at the court. She is also the first black law student chosen […]
Beenie Man Official Sponsor of Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association
Beenie Man, Jamaican dancehall artiste, has become an official sponsor of the Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association. He will provide the funding to produce the means for Toni-Ann Williams, Jamaica’s first Olympic gymnast, to compete at Rio. He will also officially sponsor Asasia Malcolm, 14. a junior gymnast, over the next four years. The sponsorship of […]
CaribbeanTales Announces Ten 2016 Incubator Participants
CaribbeanTales and FLOW announced the ten successful participants of the 2016 CaribbeanTales Incubator Program, presented by Flow, at a packed Media Launch on July 6th at the Royal Cinema in Toronto. FLOW’s CEO John Reid was in attendance, and spoke of the importance of the Incubator Program to the development of the region’s filmmakers and […]
Reggae Caribbean Cookout in Birmingham
Reggae Caribbean Cookout 12.00-18.00 7th & 14th August 4th & 18th September Fleet Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, B3 1JP A brand new event will see a little piece of the Caribbean brought to the courtyard of The Coffin Works in the Jewellery Quarter. 876StreetFood will be running 4 events during August and September. The launch […]
Rupee Replaces Bunji and Fay Ann at Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival NY, July 17th, 2016
Soca stars Bunji Garlin and Fay Ann Lyons, two of the headline acts billed to perform on the Main Stage at the 6th annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival slated to take place at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens, New York on Sunday, July 17th will not perform, Eddy Edwards, CEO of Jamaican Jerk Festival USA […]
“Jamaica has a warm and exciting energy!!!!” – SMILE JAMAICA PHOTOS
Our feature “Smile Jamaica” highlights some positives about Jamaica and Jamaicans. At the Jamaica Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay we asked Michelle Swaby-Smith “What about Jamaica or Jamaicans make you smile?” – Photo by X. Murphy “Jamaica has a warm and exciting energy that greets me as soon as I touch down every time. The Food!!” The “Smile […]
St. Elizabeth Health Services Takes Health Information to Communities
Malvern Health Centre Gets Corporate Support for Waste Management
Public Health Nurse for the Junction Health District, Ms. Natoya Miller assists BMR Jamaica Wind Limited Wind Turbine Engineer, Mr. Dayne Collins in cutting the ribbon on a garbage skip which was recently donated to the Malvern Health Centre in St. Elizabeth by BMR Jamaica Wind Limited. Photographed also is Parish Manager for the St. […]
Eljai Releases New Single “Empress”
International Reggae artist, ELJAI, has released his next single “Empress” from his upcoming album, THE OTHER SIDE OF ELJAI to be released on Friday July 22, 2016. The long awaited new album THE OTHER SIDE OF ELJAI from Belizean born Reggae artist, ELJAI (pronounced el-jay) included his international hit single cover of “Everything I Do,” […]